Rupert Murdoch: Glenn Beck Was "Right" To Say Obama Is "A Racist" With "A Deep-Seated Hatred For White People"

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Nov 10, 2009 8:47 AM EST

Article Source: Think Progress

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After President Obama inserted himself into the July spat between Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Officer Jim Crowley, Glenn Beck infamously declared on Fox & Friends that Obama "exposed himself" with the incident "as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or white culture." Challenged by co-host Brian Kilmeade, Beck claimed that he was "not saying that he doesn't like white people," just that he's a "racist." Beck's comments led to a boycott of his program by Color for Change, which has resulted in 81 companies refusing to advertise on his show.

In an interview with Sky News Australia last week, Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News' parent company, stood by Beck. Though he claimed that Beck probably shouldn't have said such a thing, Murdoch concluded that "if you actually assess what he was talking about, he was right":

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Wow. I wonder if Color of Change can manage to expand their boycott to encompass the rest of Murdoch's properties. That'd be a hell of a thing.

Honestly though, this is USDA Grade A Crazy. It's one thing for a loudmouth asshat with a talk show to spout this bull@!$%# and altogether another for the owner of vast swaths of US media to do so.

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#1 - Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:28 AM EST

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But as Jon Stewart pointed out last month, Fox only considers its programming to be news from “9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on weekdays.” “The only people you ever think about when you think about Fox News are not news,” said Stewart. “They’re Fox opiniotainment.”

I have to admit that I had some form of an intelligent comment about this until I read this:

It's one thing for a loudmouth asshat with a talk show to spout this bull@!$%#

Then I burst out laughing. It warms my soul to hear you call Beck a loudmouth asshat. Thank you for that.

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#2 - Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:19 AM EST

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